Wednesday Wagons

[Majorman]

Wednesday Wagons

Legend says that Henry Ford, whilst touring his holdings in Essex, saw a number of blue and orange wagons, a common paint combination in Essex, and decreed that his farm tractors would carry those colours in England.

 

[J Wendt]

Beautiful wagons make me wish I still had my mule team, they would sure look nice pulling wagons that colorful.

 

[Janicholson]

These are located in Hartsuff NB at a Fort museum. two Phaetons a Surrey, and a goods wagon Not reproductions. Jim

 

[cdmn]

Those English wagons sure look overbuilt. What did they haul? Whiskey barrels? I hope they had high loading docks.
there's a video showing an English wheelwright building wheels. They are quite different from American practice. Did they
have hickory in England?

 

[Majorman]

Those English wagons sure look overbuilt. What did they haul? Whiskey barrels? I hope they had high loading docks.
there's a video showing an English wheelwright building wheels. They are quite different from American practice. Did they
have hickory in England?

They are farm wagons so they would have hauled sheaves, grain in sacks, a smaller two wheeled one which tipped, called a Tumbril was used fro root crops. I can just remember a wagon like these and pulled by two horses, carting sheaves from the harvest field.

 

[Dave G9N]

Those English wagons sure look overbuilt. What did they haul? Whiskey barrels? I hope they had high loading docks.
there's a video showing an English wheelwright building wheels. They are quite different from American practice. Did they
have hickory in England?

Anyone know about the one hoss shay?

Ash, Oak and Hornbeam, but no hickory. I read a book about plant collectors from Kew Gardens. There is a surprising lack of tree diversity in England. The authors were botanists, not adventure writers. They could describe a trek through the mountains that would have impressed Ernest Shackelton sound like a stroll in a park.